Opium’s Calculus (Part 2: The Experience of Northern Chin and Tonzang)
13 Minutes To ReadIn Part Two of a three-part series, Bobby Anderson examines the case of Tonzang and its exception to conditions for opium-funded insurgencies in Myanmar, as outlined in Part One.
Opium’s Calculus (Part 1: Abacus Beads)
22 Minutes To ReadBobby Anderson, in Part One of a three-part series on opium and insurgency in Tonzang, examines some elements of traditional understandings of insurgency, statebuilding and opium.
Myanmar’s violent road to ‘peace’
21 Minutes To ReadAngshuman Choudhury analyses the recent bouts of rebel-military violence in Myanmar and assesses their implications for the peace process ahead.
Bridging the ‘Burma Gap’ in Conflict Studies
15 Minutes To ReadDavid Scott Mathieson suggests new ways to understand the world’s oldest civil war.
Colonel Mathieu in the Borderlands of Myanmar
10 Minutes To ReadFrancesco Buscemi explores dynamics between the government and state-repelling populations in Myanmar.
Pathways That Changed Myanmar, Matthew Mullen. Zed Books, 2016, 256 pages.
5 Minutes To ReadJames T. Davies reviews Matthew Mullen’s book on understanding change in Myanmar.